Great Australian Red Blend-Style Wine Kit, Forte

Great Australian Red Blend-Style Wine Kit, Forte

Overview
You are drawn to wines with presence, confidence, and a sense of place, wines that feel bold without trying too hard. With the Great Australian Red Blend-Style Wine Kit, Forte, you step into a mindset shaped by exploration and self assurance, crafting a wine that reflects decisiveness and depth rather than restraint. This is for you if you admire the unapologetic character of Australian reds and want to bring that spirit into your own cellar. Working with premium California grapes, you shape a wine that feels expansive and expressive, a reflection of your desire to create something memorable rather than merely adequate. This is home winemaking as an extension of identity, not hobby, and it places you firmly in control of the final result.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation unfolds under your guidance, you build a wine that is layered, powerful, and unmistakably bold. Syrah delivers dense black fruit flavors of blackberry and ripe plum, accented by cracked pepper and savory spice. Cabernet Sauvignon adds backbone and authority, introducing notes of black currant, dark chocolate, and subtle cedar. The mid palate is firm and structured, while the finish is long, dry, and mouth filling, leaving a velvety impression supported by confident tannins. This is a big bodied red blend designed to feel commanding in the glass and deeply satisfying at the table.

What Makes This Kit Different
This is the ultimate home winemaking experience because you are not working with shelf stable shortcuts. You ferment with raw grape concentrates and real grape skins, allowing the wine to develop naturally rather than being forced into uniformity. Your fermentation includes 4 lbs of real grape skins along with exclusive grape seed packs, a feature unique to Finer Wine Kits. In traditional red winemaking, seeds are essential for building authentic tannin structure and phenolic depth. Fermenting with both skins and seeds delivers balance, texture, and a natural framework that fully supports a finished alcohol level of 14 percent. This approach is why wines made with Finer Wine Kits move beyond the familiar kit taste associated with shelf stable brands and instead deliver the depth, grip, and realism of wine made from fresh grapes.

Designed for Confidence and Mastery
You do not need to be an expert to begin, but you will finish with a stronger understanding of the craft and greater confidence in your decisions. Developed by home winemakers like you, Finer Wine Kits reflect years of hands on experience refined into a process that is both educational and reliable. The instructions explain not only what to do, but why each step matters, giving you clarity rather than guesswork. This is a process that respects your intelligence and rewards your attention.

Cold Stored, Direct to Your Door
This kit is a true agricultural product and cannot sit on a shelf. Because of its perishable nature, it is stored cold and shipped directly from freezer storage to your door, preserving freshness, aroma, and grape integrity. This direct to door model is the only way a wine kit of this caliber can exist. By eliminating distributors and wholesalers, you receive top grade ingredients at peak condition without unnecessary markups, ensuring genuine value for a premium product.

The raw grape concentrate is vacuum evaporated at low temperatures to preserve varietal character and avoid the cooked flavors common in shelf stable kits. If you are not ready to begin immediately, the grape skins must be stored in your freezer, and the raw grape concentrates must be stored at 3 degrees F or colder. Proper cold storage ensures the finished wine delivers the structure, purity, and depth you expect from a serious red blend.

Technical Details
• Finished alcohol: 14 percent ABV
• Yield: 28 to 30 bottles, 6 gallons
• Style: Big bodied red blend
• Varietals: Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon
• Character: Dry
• Region: Lodi, California
• Fermentation ingredients: Raw grape concentrate, 4 lbs of real grape skins, grape seed packs
• Storage requirements: Grape skins must be stored in the freezer, raw grape concentrates must be stored at 3 degrees F or colder
• Important notice: This kit is an agricultural product and must be fermented or cooked before being consumed

With the Great Australian Red Blend Style Wine Kit, Forte, you are not chasing imitation. You are creating a wine with weight, confidence, and authenticity, one that reflects your taste and stands apart from expectations of what home winemaking can achieve.

You can view and download the complete instruction booklet here. Advanced users can now also download an abbreviated version of the instructions here.

*This kit is an agricultural product and must be fermented or cooked before being consumed.

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